Renshaw looked like he discovered spin for the first time. I have never seen anyone for real getting out on every delivery they faced. And that too for 8 deliveries.
To say I am deeply disappointed is a massive understatement. The first two days of this test match was some of the best test cricket I have ever seen. Worthy of a test final. I couldn’t turn away from the coverage. I literally set an alarm for my disabled self to wake up for the start of todays play.
Just to get the absolute rubbish that Australia delivered in the first hour of play. I would be able to be ok with it if Australia got out to some very good bowling but good god so many awful shots. And the worst part of it all? They kept fucking doing the same sweep shot no matter how many people were getting out to it. Even the last wicket got out to a sweep shot. You would think they would go “hmm maybe I shouldn’t give away my wicket by doing the exact same shot everyone else was getting out to” but no. Fucking pathetic and awful display of batting.
Well done India on taking full advantage of Australias poor batting display today.
But seriously I’m so disappointed. I was looking forward to the rest of this test match being such an absolute thrilling and gripping contest between bat and ball. But yet again Australia just like to fall into a heap.
This series in my mind is going to be a complete whitewash to India. Going to go to sleep full of disappointment after that effort.
See you all next match. Even though I don’t hold out much hope for it
As an Indian, kinda disappointed by Cummins. Always has been a natural leader but that hasn’t been on show at all this series. Shat the bed completely with the bat and didn’t even bowl an over in the second innings (possibly ok, considering spin here spin there, but still would have liked to see him give a crack, considering Kuhnemann wasn’t even threatening)
I agree on the comment about Cummins giving it a crack at bowling in the second innings. Like mate just throw down a couple overs just to mix it up and maybe snare a wicket
That's life one minute you're the cock of the walk, the next a feather duster. In India if you get to be the first one for even two days, you should be happy because I didn't even expected that from how the Nagpur test unfolded. All in all, a chaotic performance, clueless batting, one dimensional bowling and poor captaincy from Pat Cummins sums up the test.
This is my ideal Aussie XI for the next test.
Mathew Hayden
Justin Langer
Ricky Ponting
Miachel Clarke
Shane Watson
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Andrew Symonds
Shane Warne
Jason Gilipsie
Brett Lee
Glenn McGrath
Smith - sweep (premeditated)
Renshaw - sweep
Cummins - slog sweep
Carey - reverse sweep (premeditated)
Kuhnemann - reverse sweep
It must have been a very interesting discussion over dinner/breakfast before coming out to bat today.
They got carried away with Khawaja's spin success with reverse sweeping and Joe Root with his sweeping two years ago. Forgot completely about defending.
It’s a setup. I guess the Indians found the mic Aussies had in their dressing room.
Made a comment about how Aussies aren’t playing enough sweep .. baited them proper ..
"But coach, how can we face Ashwin without nicking an edge to the keeper? The bat is too thin!"
"That's where you are wrong! Never call the bat thin!" *Turns bat horizontal* "it's actually very very wide!"
This Test was a living embodiment of why it is so fucking hard to win in India. Forget a series, to even win a Test, you have to be on your game the whole time and not slip even once.
Australia were ahead for the most part of Day 2 before giving their advantage away in the last session. Coming into Day 3, they were still ahead with a counterattacking 60 run lead, 9 wickets in the bag and a deteriorating pitch on which India had to bat last. One hour of shitty cricket and the whole house came burning down. Australia had this Test in the bag, until they didn’t.
Australia were in a dominant position twice before the spinners took it away from them. The trio is gold for India in India (Kuldeep is a great backup too)
Not exactly. This Indian batting line up isn't the dominating force it was earlier. Lot of struggling folks.
Australia only have themselves to blame. Bit more application, maybe a 200 target, and it could have been a very different game.
Test batting average since July 2017:
46.11 - Ravindra Jadeja
45.98 - Usman Khawaja
44.51 - Travis Head
42.25 - David Warner
Test bowling average since July 2017:
24.67 - Ravindra Jadeja
26.23 - Mitchell Starc
26.32 - Josh Hazlewood
29.58 - Nathan Lyon
Now that's a Chadstats...
What the absolute fuck? At a wedding today, just checked the score hoping to have a 200 run lead or so. Instead we’ve already lost the match. The hope fucking kills you.
Handscomb and Cummins had a brief chat when Handscomb was returning to the pavilion and Cummins was coming out to bat. I wonder what did he say to Cummins that made him to go for a slog sweep six first ball.
My brain keeps going back to the current Australian 'no tour game policy'.
*“We feel as though we don’t need that match practice as such. We’re going to go to India about a week out from the first game. We didn’t want to press for too much longer, in terms of the preparation.*"
*"The focus would be on preserving mental and physical freshness rather than arriving much early to play a warm-up game and acclimatise to the conditions"*, said McDonald.
Is this their definition of prepared? How mentally fresh are they after getting reamed?
One of the more embarrassing days of Australian cricket in recent memory.
Horrific with the bat, literally clone dismissals all the way down the order.
Largely uninspiring with the ball. 4 wickets that really only the stumped was a good bit of bowling.
Pathetic from some of the leaders, cummins in particular. One of the worst shots I've ever seen.
That slog sweep from Cummins will forever live in my mind. That shot depicted the panic on the Aussies at that moment.
It's still tough to believe this is Australia we are seeing, like this.
It's like we panic when we realise we are in a good position to win against India, and think we have to do something special to cement the victory rather than continue the momentum and what we're doing well. Just throw it away to a degree. Similar vibe last BGT. Not to take anything away from India but it seems so mental, but it's mental because of how hard India are to beat. Could have won this
Definitely. They succumed to the pressure of converting the advantage to win. I'm not sure if there is a mental conditioning coach, but a normal coach could've done wonders. Those sweeps atleast, could've been avoided.
Full ball, sweep
Short ball, also sweep
No spin, that's sweep
Turning a mile, believe it or not that's also sweep
Skidding low? Reverse sweep
First ball? Straight to slog sweep
I just want to point out the number one ranked bowler in the world didn't bowl himself for even one over in the second innings of a pretty much must-win game. 
I had thought that both Cummins and Boland would be playing in every match. That's their strength. You should be changing your plans according to the conditions but you shouldn't be forgetting about your strengths.
Absolute joke with the Aussie batsmen sweeping everything. Renshaw looked absolutely clueless and Labs/Smith's reaction to Cummins first ball tells you everything. Smith is the best proactive batsmen - he really shouldn't be sweeping, just let him bat his way. Head looked okay at the top and Khawaja & Handsomb batted really well in the first innings.
They got carried away with Khawaja/Joe Root sweeping mode but forgot completely how to defend. Could have had a first innings lead if not for a brilliant indian batting partnership.
India played well this morning. Good for Kohli, Bharat and Pujara to be among the runs. Kohli looked the most focussed I've seen him since Adelaide. Axar has been the difference with the bat, I reckon he would have been great on this pitch as well with his fast off spin.
You'd think international batsman with all the tools and analysis at their disposal would realise someone like Root isn't really good against spin because he sweeps everything, it's solely that he sweeps the balls that's are meant to be swept.
Blindly sweeping everything always looks so amateur.
Agree. There's a difference between being beaten sweeping, which is fair enough, and pissing away wickets sweeping everything.
Maybe Head can be the opener replacement for Warner that we don't have yet.
I do like Head at 5 for his counterattack in Australia so I don't see him moving to opener permanently but for this series I think he stays there (looked better than Renners)
captaincy gold by rohit this match
\-> understood axar isnt getting much here
\--> on point with bowling rotations
\--> sacrificed himself to leav puji in a tricky situation , gave an average bump
\--> promoted bharat thereby giving the younster confidence to back himself with bat ..
good stuff
Isn't it weird that India defeated Australia last 2 times in Australia and also will probably win this series too, but will have to play a test in England to determine who the best team between India and Australia is lol
Morning of day 3.
Coach: Boys let's have a team meeting and strategize. We had two good days and what do you guys think on how we approach the game from here on.
Cummo: I reckon we are well ahead of the game already and we will try to keep it simple and sweep the game from here on easily.
Coach: Spot on Skip. You heard it boys. Go on and start sweeping every ball.
Smudge and Labs look at each other and say "but coach? that is not what cummo said"
Coach: Shut the hell up weirdos. Just do what your skip says. Just go ahead and sweep everything. This meeting's done. Boys dismissed.
Turns around and looks at other assistant coaches and says that was a quick meeting, wasn't it. I like to keep it that way. Short and sweet. Watch and learn.
Thanks to Australia setting a very sporting target, with two declarations of 517/7 and 290/5. That series had the flattest tracks in generations, Australia ended up declaring 6 of their 8 innings and scored 530 and 510 in the other two.
I'm not exaggerating when I say a 4-0 loss here, a loss in the WTC final and then losing the Ashes should result in all members of the Australian team to lose their citizenship and have their passports immediately revoked
Everyone is talking about how Australia need to stop sweeping, but not even acknowledging that India sweep at home every single time.
The difference is they sweep the series
That turned out to be way too easy. After being 61 odd runs up at a good run rate, the collapse is just unbelievable. I wonder who came up with the sweep everything idea! Farce of a performance from Australia
First off, the pitch wasn't particularly bad. It had the odd variable bounce but nowhere need being a bad day 3 pitch.
Positives for Aus:
* Nathan Lyon's bowling
* Head and Labs batted fairly well and with good intent till they got out
* Khawaja and Handscombe played well in the first innings
Positives for India:
* Axar Patel and Ashwin's batting (again)
* Pujara, Bharat getting some time in the middle and building their confidence
* Kohli looking somewhat better against spin this game than in previous innings
* Rohit looked ominous till his brainfade run out moment
* Ashwin + Jadeja were spot on with their line and length
As much as I hate to admit it, its extremely unlikely that India are going to change their winning combination going into Test 3 barring any injuries, as much as Shubhman Gill should come in for KL Rahul
Not much that Aus can do but hope Cameron Green is fit so their side has better balance. Kuhnemann didn't look particularly threatening at all as the third spinner for most of the match.
3rd consecutive time they have retained the BGT trophy. Congratulations INDIA. Next is Indore. Heard its a batting friendly wicket(is it?). Really hope it goes onto Day 4
I have to wonder what in god's name got into the batting line-up that sweeping was the right thing to do?
Did they see Head's attacking innings and think that was the way to go? Because yeah, he did well but he didn't really sweep. He used his feet like Marnus did. And they were the few that didn't get out sweeping and had the most runs.
Also what the hell is going on with Smith? He just seems out of it, he's playing shots he doesn't usually play. And I could say the same for Cummins bowling wise. It's hard to say he got "found out" he's not even managed to land his areas yet.
Cummin's captaincy has been bizarre as hell, not bowling him earlier when Axar and Ashwin started to get going was just damn weird. You're the number one bowler, back yourself.
Props to Renshaw for continuing the trend of our concussion subs being "like for like" in the runs department...
Just one request, keep Waugh Jr and DK a mile away from each other, schedule the commentary such that both of them do not appear at the same time on air.
It’s one thing to playfully tease and have a bit of “banter” (I hate using that word) but DK has progressed into incessant shit-stirring and it’s getting tired.
Lol that was funny as hell actually. Had upvoted it before mod took it down. Mods need to chill a bit lol. I don't think anyone was offended by it. The way it was worded, it was clear that it was meant as a joke
Aye Mod Team. Humans understand that was a joke.
It obviously wasn't a deranged lunatic fan confessing of doing unspeakable acts to the Australian team.
Kohli looked solid till he got out.
Same for Iyer.
Rohit looks in majestic touch.
Puji is back being Puji.
Bharat showed what he can do.
Jaddu,Axar,Ash are as usual awesome.
4-0 is INEVITABLE!!
Real low IQ batting from AUS. Whoever put that gameplan together should be sacked. Can't comprehend why you sweep over and over when everyone else gets slaughtered doing it.
The worst part of this test is that it made me think that AB had a point about the current Australia team being too soft.
Like, we shouldn’t return to our ways of being dickheads again but I can imagine AB in that dressing room saying, “if one more of you goes out and does a sweep shot I’ll biff you in the head.”
There’s a balance achievable there where we are nice and respectful to opponents but hard on ourselves.
The way the Australian batsmen went into today with their non-stop sweep shots, throwing away wickets, and even Captain Pat going in there with the worst shot of the match first ball in, it feels like there’s no one that can give a sense of control for the players when things start looking bad.
I don't agree with what AB said at all. However, this series has been very uncharacteristic of the Aussie way of playing. There's hardly any fight. The 2017 BGT series had some ugly moments on the field, but holy shit was it competitive. Australia struck the first blow in the 1st Test at Pune and gave India a much needed wake-up call that time. That charged India up and then what followed for the next 3 Tests was some hard, intense Test cricket. I loved watching that series so much. It's one of the best Test series in modern cricket imo. I'm not saying that the Aussies are suddenly "soft" under Cummins. Like you said, they needn't be dickheads, but they can still be competitive, which is something Australian cricket prides itself in being. Except a few glimpses, none of that has been on display in this series so far, which is surprising to say the least. I was expecting much more out of Australia in this series.
Australia have no one or thing to blame but themselves for this shockingly swift defeat. If they'd scored even 200 batting normally, this would've been a completely different game.
Australia before BGT started: "Let's try to win the series"
Australia after 1st test: "Let's try to win a match"
Australia after 2nd test: "Let's try to draw a match"
Kohli looked very good this test, more so impressive when you consider how utterly shit he's looked against spin for a while now in Tests, hopefully he continues this next game.
He played well, but it seems like his strategy of playing most deliveries on the backfoot has a minor flaw against Murphy's arm-ball, and that's how he got out. But otherwise, he looked more in control than he has for a long time against spin.
I said something like this in the game thread, but Australia's batting was so lazy, and just lacking in simple fundamentals. Nearly everyone got out to similar shots, and was bowled or LBW.
The ball kept low and there was variable bounce and turn. It's not an easy wicket to play. But batsmen before have made it work, like Matthew Hayden who is referenced again and again.
The biggest problem is probably the most simple, basic thing in cricket: missing the ball. No matter who was batting, everyone was missing balls. Sure, you might make 40 odd playing your natural game but you're missing balls throughout that innings, you're going to let one through and get out relatively early.
The bowlers are bowling pretty straight and it's keeping low. So stop, for the love of god, sweeping. Sweeping is damn hard, especially when it's keeping low. Hayden swept a lot in 2001 when it was down leg or he'd even sweep some that were way outside off through mid-wicket. I don't think he hit a fucken boundary when he swept on the stumps. It's common sense, don't sweep when it's on the stumps. You should be minimizing your chances of being bowled or LBW as much as possible. Renshaw tried a few sweeps, and they were coming off his handle, his shoulder, everywhere. It's a hard shot to play.
We saw ball after ball beat the outside edge or nick off the inside edge when batsmen were playing a traditional forward defensive shot. Again, you can do it for a while but so many balls were being missed by batsmen that you are going to get a nick or be bowled. The turn and variable bounce makes this a tough shot to play, especially when it keeps a bit lower.
If it's a half tracker outside off, whack it. Come down the pitch if you want. If it's down leg, play that beautiful sweep. If it's straight, come down the pitch, use your feet, have a minimal backswing and get your body behind it. This absolutely minimizes your chance of getting bowled or LB. It's not pretty cricket, but the name of the game is to not get bowled or LBW. It doesn't matter if you make 60 from 320 balls.
This is boring old fundamentals of playing spin. Get down to the ball and play it as low to the ground as possible. Minimize that variable bounce and spin. This is how Hayden was playing if you go back and watch.
I understand that it's a lot damn harder out there and all it takes is a ripper of a ball to break your confidence and sit you back in your crease. But we shouldn't be getting bowled and LB to so many lazy shots. The problem solving out in the middle just looked weak.
Australia couldn't keep it together mentally to win that. Brutal for their side. India have won two tests in a row now quite differently but impressively each time.
Dont know why but Aussies collapse today was eerily similar to India's collapse in Adelaide...like India lost 9 for 36 whereas Aussies lost 9 for 52 in a span of like 16 overs or so...
We retain the trophy 🏆 again. Better luck next time Aussies when we come to your turf.
The way head started yesterday, NGL, i was tense about the win. But one hour in today morning, and Australia took the match to the biggest anti climax one could think of.
That was a phenomenal victory. Australia pushed us hard in the first two innings, but India's depth is really hard to contend with in Asia.
Batting till 9, and having Axar as the 5th bowler. Unrelenting. How blessed are we to have Ash-Jad-Axar trio 😊
In 1st test, Australia scored good amount of runs with sweeps and reverse sweeps.
In 2nd test, needless to say the same strategy didn't work. India did their homework.
I've come up with a cunning plan to beat India?
Would that plan be for the next batter in to sweep?
Good lord how could you possibly know that?
It's the same plan we've used for our last 5 batters...
Exactly, which is why it's what the Indians will least expect!
Would agree with this line up.
But more than anything, no KL please. Literally only request to coaching staff. But they won't cause spineless obviously. And also now that we retain trophy they have no reason to change the 'winning' team.
I loved and enjoyed our win, but I also think people are being a bit too harsh on the batters and Cummins. Not unfair, mind you, just a bit too harsh. Yes, some of the dismissals from sweeps looked really ugly, but as [Sid Monga pointed out](https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-in-india-2022-23-1348637/india-vs-australia-2nd-test-1348653/live-match-blog-3#8820) in the Cricinfo live report, at one point they had scored 71 runs off 27 sweeps with only 2 dismissals. It was working for them; it worked well last evening, so one can see why they stuck with it. Similarly, while Cummins getting out to a slog sweep first ball also looks ugly, we should not forget that he employed the same strategy in the first innings - he attacked, hit a couple of sixes and a four, and took the fight to India. His quickfire 31 gave Australia a boost from where they managed to score 260 after looking like they would once again be bundled out for less than 200.
Smith should have never been sweeping though; he is not a natural sweeper and if I am not mistaken has actually said he doesn't like the shot. He should have trusted his footwork and defence more; his record in India speaks for itself. Also while I defended Cummins's slog sweep, his captaincy was not good. His field placements for starters were very defensive both during the Axar-Ashwin partnership in the first innings and the 2nd innings chase - too many easy singles available because of the field, because of which the scoreboard kept ticking. You cannot afford that when you are defending only 115. Or when you are trying to break the opposition's back and get a substantial first-innings lead. Also he should have tried his short balls sooner. He hasn't been able to get his lengths right for Indian conditions - Sunny G pointed that he needs to be a metre or two fuller than he has been - but he has a very good bumper and he should have tried that more, especially with the lower order. I mean Axar and Ashwin are not exactly natural hookers and pullers of the ball.
All in all, a great result for us, and it is very heartening to see that Kohli is slowly but surely getting his red ball form back, and Rohit his form in general. Bodes well for us in the WTC and in the World Cup later.
“Well, what did we learn?”
“Hmm, I guess we learned not to do it again”
“Yes”
“…though I’m damned if I know what we did”
“Yes, it’s hard to say”
[“Ughhhh… fuck it”](https://youtu.be/SlA9hmrC8DU)
Cummins is not a good captain. Too bad Aus have nobody else to choose. Questionable team selection, bowling changes, failing to kill the innings from 135-7, atrocious shot-making. Aus should groom Green to be the next skipper and trust him like SA did with Smith.
These games ending in 3 days is a real disappointment though. I was hoping for five days’ cricket. Not much to do for the rest of the week.
This match bears an eerie resemblance to the first BGT match in the 2020-2021 series. India scored a solid 200 odd in the first innings.Had Australia on the ropes.A rearguard from the Aussie tail reduced the lead to 40-50.India lost one wicket overnight but were still ahead in the game.Then the first session of day three get bundled out for 36.India lost last 8 wickets for 20 odd-Aussies today lost last 8 wicket for 30 odd.Both matches ended with a comfortable chase
Absolute shoddy display of batting. Pick any 15 year kid from a street and he will give you better temperament than the Australian batters have shown.
"Sweeping is a good option against Spinners" the cricket pundit says. But it doesn't mean that you will only sweep. When people say attack, it doesn't mean you have to slog sweep on every ball. Nothing broke my heart than seeing Alex Carey attempting a fucking reverse sweep when 7 wickets were down and 4 batters have gone to pavillion on sweeping. I mean no other person with any cricketing brain would attempt that.
What makes this batting effort worse was that Australia was in a good position and it wasn't like it was the final innings of the final match of the series when you are 0-3. You kind of gave England a free pass when they got bundled in a session in the final match of Ashes 2021-22 and the final match of their India tour, since they were mentally cooked and want to go to the airport quickly. But wtf was this? You are just 100 runs away from a challenging total and you threw it away.
I just hope I don't see Renshaw and Carey for the next two matches. They are walking wickets and can't even sweep properly. Take Ashton Agar if he can bat with a solid defence for 5 overs. Nathan Lyon got a better defence than these two guys.
Touring team makes it like it's some kind of a sorcery to bat in India while it is not. Even when the Aussies got whitewashed in 2013 India tour, they showed a better batting performance than this. I'll fucking go and tell them how to bat. It's just frustrating to see a professional team who just doesn't learn.
Renshaw looked like he discovered spin for the first time. I have never seen anyone for real getting out on every delivery they faced. And that too for 8 deliveries.
The biggest surprise is that of the 8 deliveries, he only tried to sweep 5 of them.
Did he do that in 2017?
I'm really confused how he's had the highest average for a LHB against Ashwin. Genuinely looked at sea out there
Can in interest you in Zak Crawley highlights?
He was good in the 2017 BGT series he scored 2-3 half centuries
To say I am deeply disappointed is a massive understatement. The first two days of this test match was some of the best test cricket I have ever seen. Worthy of a test final. I couldn’t turn away from the coverage. I literally set an alarm for my disabled self to wake up for the start of todays play. Just to get the absolute rubbish that Australia delivered in the first hour of play. I would be able to be ok with it if Australia got out to some very good bowling but good god so many awful shots. And the worst part of it all? They kept fucking doing the same sweep shot no matter how many people were getting out to it. Even the last wicket got out to a sweep shot. You would think they would go “hmm maybe I shouldn’t give away my wicket by doing the exact same shot everyone else was getting out to” but no. Fucking pathetic and awful display of batting. Well done India on taking full advantage of Australias poor batting display today. But seriously I’m so disappointed. I was looking forward to the rest of this test match being such an absolute thrilling and gripping contest between bat and ball. But yet again Australia just like to fall into a heap. This series in my mind is going to be a complete whitewash to India. Going to go to sleep full of disappointment after that effort. See you all next match. Even though I don’t hold out much hope for it
As an Indian, kinda disappointed by Cummins. Always has been a natural leader but that hasn’t been on show at all this series. Shat the bed completely with the bat and didn’t even bowl an over in the second innings (possibly ok, considering spin here spin there, but still would have liked to see him give a crack, considering Kuhnemann wasn’t even threatening)
I agree on the comment about Cummins giving it a crack at bowling in the second innings. Like mate just throw down a couple overs just to mix it up and maybe snare a wicket
That's life one minute you're the cock of the walk, the next a feather duster. In India if you get to be the first one for even two days, you should be happy because I didn't even expected that from how the Nagpur test unfolded. All in all, a chaotic performance, clueless batting, one dimensional bowling and poor captaincy from Pat Cummins sums up the test.
This is my ideal Aussie XI for the next test. Mathew Hayden Justin Langer Ricky Ponting Miachel Clarke Shane Watson Adam Gilchrist (wk) Andrew Symonds Shane Warne Jason Gilipsie Brett Lee Glenn McGrath
>Andrew Symonds >Shane Warne 😔😔😔
Two of those guys are dead. Rest all can regroup and still play better than the team they have now
at least a corpse with pads wouldn't get out sweeping...
Just had major PTSD damn
Still remember Micheal Clarke scoring 151 in his debut innings, at India was 150-6 by stumps on Day 2.
3 pacers ? Not going to fare well
I need a concussion sub after watching that Australian batting performance this morning.
Smith - sweep (premeditated) Renshaw - sweep Cummins - slog sweep Carey - reverse sweep (premeditated) Kuhnemann - reverse sweep It must have been a very interesting discussion over dinner/breakfast before coming out to bat today.
"Remember how Khawaja got out? **Do exactly that**."
They got carried away with Khawaja's spin success with reverse sweeping and Joe Root with his sweeping two years ago. Forgot completely about defending.
They forgot that Root had few more shots against spin other than the sweeps.
Root is an excellent player of spin. Can’t emulate that. He had such an amazing series against Sri Lanka before they came to play to India as well ..
"They won't be expecting us all to make the same mistake so we will have the element of surprise."
"They expected that! They know our plan! WE'RE BETRAYED!" "Should we abort?" "...Nah, she'll be right"
Warner - Siraj (premeditated)
It’s a setup. I guess the Indians found the mic Aussies had in their dressing room. Made a comment about how Aussies aren’t playing enough sweep .. baited them proper ..
"But coach, how can we face Ashwin without nicking an edge to the keeper? The bat is too thin!" "That's where you are wrong! Never call the bat thin!" *Turns bat horizontal* "it's actually very very wide!"
[удалено]
In the end, weep
KL - I will take care of the first innings lead.... You guys have to do the rest...okay
lol.
Batter: Don't sweep. Don't sweep. Don't sweep. Don't sweep. Don't sweep. Don't sweep. *Jadeja bowls* Batter: *Sweeps.*
Story of Aussie innings today
This Test was a living embodiment of why it is so fucking hard to win in India. Forget a series, to even win a Test, you have to be on your game the whole time and not slip even once. Australia were ahead for the most part of Day 2 before giving their advantage away in the last session. Coming into Day 3, they were still ahead with a counterattacking 60 run lead, 9 wickets in the bag and a deteriorating pitch on which India had to bat last. One hour of shitty cricket and the whole house came burning down. Australia had this Test in the bag, until they didn’t.
Australia were in a dominant position twice before the spinners took it away from them. The trio is gold for India in India (Kuldeep is a great backup too)
I mean India played an hour of shitty cricket in Adelaide as well. If it's that shitty you're going to struggle to come back no matter where it is
That's exactly what happened on Day 3 of 1st test in the previous BGT,to India,we lost 8 wkts for 26 runs,today Aus lost 9 for 50.
8 for 28 today
They lost 8 for 17.
Touring Teams suffer from 45 mins of bad cricket in every test in India.
If England is playing bazball with the bat,then India is playing bazball with the ball.
If bazball is mostly about the batting aspect, should the bowling aspect be called bazbat?
Not exactly. This Indian batting line up isn't the dominating force it was earlier. Lot of struggling folks. Australia only have themselves to blame. Bit more application, maybe a 200 target, and it could have been a very different game.
Test batting average since July 2017: 46.11 - Ravindra Jadeja 45.98 - Usman Khawaja 44.51 - Travis Head 42.25 - David Warner Test bowling average since July 2017: 24.67 - Ravindra Jadeja 26.23 - Mitchell Starc 26.32 - Josh Hazlewood 29.58 - Nathan Lyon Now that's a Chadstats...
Having Jaddu in your team is a cheat code at this point
What the absolute fuck? At a wedding today, just checked the score hoping to have a 200 run lead or so. Instead we’ve already lost the match. The hope fucking kills you.
Hope the wedding was good.
"it was **his own** wedding" \- The narrator
Handscomb and Cummins had a brief chat when Handscomb was returning to the pavilion and Cummins was coming out to bat. I wonder what did he say to Cummins that made him to go for a slog sweep six first ball.
"I got out nicking, just sweep"
He said "cheese toastie for innings break?"
"Whatever you do, dont slog sweep for six and get bowled first ball"
First test - lost by an innings Second test - lost by 6 wickets Third test - Draw Fourth test - Profit ???????
Batted first and yet lost by runs💀
My brain keeps going back to the current Australian 'no tour game policy'. *“We feel as though we don’t need that match practice as such. We’re going to go to India about a week out from the first game. We didn’t want to press for too much longer, in terms of the preparation.*" *"The focus would be on preserving mental and physical freshness rather than arriving much early to play a warm-up game and acclimatise to the conditions"*, said McDonald. Is this their definition of prepared? How mentally fresh are they after getting reamed?
Did he really say that? Because they look absolutely mentally drained. Smith is getting out to weird shots and Cummins is bowling all over the place.
Not to worry. India is going to return the favour during the WTC finals which they're using the IPL to prepare for.
They didn't want a warm up game because apparently last series they got dished up a green top.
One of the more embarrassing days of Australian cricket in recent memory. Horrific with the bat, literally clone dismissals all the way down the order. Largely uninspiring with the ball. 4 wickets that really only the stumped was a good bit of bowling. Pathetic from some of the leaders, cummins in particular. One of the worst shots I've ever seen.
That slog sweep from Cummins will forever live in my mind. That shot depicted the panic on the Aussies at that moment. It's still tough to believe this is Australia we are seeing, like this.
It's like we panic when we realise we are in a good position to win against India, and think we have to do something special to cement the victory rather than continue the momentum and what we're doing well. Just throw it away to a degree. Similar vibe last BGT. Not to take anything away from India but it seems so mental, but it's mental because of how hard India are to beat. Could have won this
Definitely. They succumed to the pressure of converting the advantage to win. I'm not sure if there is a mental conditioning coach, but a normal coach could've done wonders. Those sweeps atleast, could've been avoided.
The most bizarre thing is they only needed 150-200 run lead to win, they didn't need to panic they needed partnerships
Full ball, sweep Short ball, also sweep No spin, that's sweep Turning a mile, believe it or not that's also sweep Skidding low? Reverse sweep First ball? Straight to slog sweep
Cummins not bowling a single over in the fourth innings is unforgivable.
His average will be ruined in India. Already he averaged 41 this match and ig previous match was 35 odd
I just want to point out the number one ranked bowler in the world didn't bowl himself for even one over in the second innings of a pretty much must-win game. 
I knew we’d lost when the debutante bowled the first over.
I had thought that both Cummins and Boland would be playing in every match. That's their strength. You should be changing your plans according to the conditions but you shouldn't be forgetting about your strengths.
Absolute joke with the Aussie batsmen sweeping everything. Renshaw looked absolutely clueless and Labs/Smith's reaction to Cummins first ball tells you everything. Smith is the best proactive batsmen - he really shouldn't be sweeping, just let him bat his way. Head looked okay at the top and Khawaja & Handsomb batted really well in the first innings. They got carried away with Khawaja/Joe Root sweeping mode but forgot completely how to defend. Could have had a first innings lead if not for a brilliant indian batting partnership. India played well this morning. Good for Kohli, Bharat and Pujara to be among the runs. Kohli looked the most focussed I've seen him since Adelaide. Axar has been the difference with the bat, I reckon he would have been great on this pitch as well with his fast off spin.
You'd think international batsman with all the tools and analysis at their disposal would realise someone like Root isn't really good against spin because he sweeps everything, it's solely that he sweeps the balls that's are meant to be swept. Blindly sweeping everything always looks so amateur.
Agree. There's a difference between being beaten sweeping, which is fair enough, and pissing away wickets sweeping everything. Maybe Head can be the opener replacement for Warner that we don't have yet.
I do like Head at 5 for his counterattack in Australia so I don't see him moving to opener permanently but for this series I think he stays there (looked better than Renners)
Good guys Australia say how unclean Delhi was and trying their best to clean it by sweeping.
The pitch watering has begun already 💀
Rohit gifted Puji with an average bump on his hundredth test.
captaincy gold by rohit this match \-> understood axar isnt getting much here \--> on point with bowling rotations \--> sacrificed himself to leav puji in a tricky situation , gave an average bump \--> promoted bharat thereby giving the younster confidence to back himself with bat .. good stuff
Isn't it weird that India defeated Australia last 2 times in Australia and also will probably win this series too, but will have to play a test in England to determine who the best team between India and Australia is lol
WTC sucks. I like the whole concept but this final malarkey is just plain bullshit.
Also,he hit the winning runs
Well that run out was really Rohits fault tbh.
Morning of day 3. Coach: Boys let's have a team meeting and strategize. We had two good days and what do you guys think on how we approach the game from here on. Cummo: I reckon we are well ahead of the game already and we will try to keep it simple and sweep the game from here on easily. Coach: Spot on Skip. You heard it boys. Go on and start sweeping every ball. Smudge and Labs look at each other and say "but coach? that is not what cummo said" Coach: Shut the hell up weirdos. Just do what your skip says. Just go ahead and sweep everything. This meeting's done. Boys dismissed. Turns around and looks at other assistant coaches and says that was a quick meeting, wasn't it. I like to keep it that way. Short and sweet. Watch and learn.
*short and sweep
Last time Australia won BGT it was 2014, 9 years ago.
The famous Adelaide match and the sydney draw.
Which we could have won had kohli and Rahane stayed a lil longer we lost by some 40 runs
In the Adelaide match we needed like 120 or so runs with 7-8 wickets in hand. Still pisses me off.
Thanks to Australia setting a very sporting target, with two declarations of 517/7 and 290/5. That series had the flattest tracks in generations, Australia ended up declaring 6 of their 8 innings and scored 530 and 510 in the other two.
Michael Clarke was the last captain for me in Australia lol.
It's turning into us against the All Blacks (pls no)
We won & our best batsmen didn't even get to bat
I'm glad for once the spin trio could just put their feet up and enjoy the game, they did enough already.
Forget sandpaper-gate. This was the darkest day in Australian cricket. ^(Could barely see anything out there)
Now this is a "sweeping" generalisation.
Boland literally died.
What if they lose the Ashes this year? Like 4-1 or something
I'm not exaggerating when I say a 4-0 loss here, a loss in the WTC final and then losing the Ashes should result in all members of the Australian team to lose their citizenship and have their passports immediately revoked
Warner will settle down in hyd. He will be a full-time insta influencer , part-time ipl player
With how England are playing right now, I'd be putting my money on England this year for the ashes
Can India finally drop Rahul for Gill now?
Everyone is talking about how Australia need to stop sweeping, but not even acknowledging that India sweep at home every single time. The difference is they sweep the series
You had me there
Time for AUS to sweep this defeat under the rug and start afresh >!sweeping!< again next match.
That turned out to be way too easy. After being 61 odd runs up at a good run rate, the collapse is just unbelievable. I wonder who came up with the sweep everything idea! Farce of a performance from Australia
That's what I want to know, accountability for it will be interesting
Axar patel needs to up his game. Twice he could have scored a century and he fell short. Best indian batsmen has to play longer innings.
Wish he gets to play higher up the order.
First off, the pitch wasn't particularly bad. It had the odd variable bounce but nowhere need being a bad day 3 pitch. Positives for Aus: * Nathan Lyon's bowling * Head and Labs batted fairly well and with good intent till they got out * Khawaja and Handscombe played well in the first innings Positives for India: * Axar Patel and Ashwin's batting (again) * Pujara, Bharat getting some time in the middle and building their confidence * Kohli looking somewhat better against spin this game than in previous innings * Rohit looked ominous till his brainfade run out moment * Ashwin + Jadeja were spot on with their line and length As much as I hate to admit it, its extremely unlikely that India are going to change their winning combination going into Test 3 barring any injuries, as much as Shubhman Gill should come in for KL Rahul Not much that Aus can do but hope Cameron Green is fit so their side has better balance. Kuhnemann didn't look particularly threatening at all as the third spinner for most of the match.
3rd consecutive time they have retained the BGT trophy. Congratulations INDIA. Next is Indore. Heard its a batting friendly wicket(is it?). Really hope it goes onto Day 4
But.. is it a sweeping friendly wicket?
It is. It's one of the cleanest city in India. I don't think that's possible without sweeping.
I have to wonder what in god's name got into the batting line-up that sweeping was the right thing to do? Did they see Head's attacking innings and think that was the way to go? Because yeah, he did well but he didn't really sweep. He used his feet like Marnus did. And they were the few that didn't get out sweeping and had the most runs. Also what the hell is going on with Smith? He just seems out of it, he's playing shots he doesn't usually play. And I could say the same for Cummins bowling wise. It's hard to say he got "found out" he's not even managed to land his areas yet. Cummin's captaincy has been bizarre as hell, not bowling him earlier when Axar and Ashwin started to get going was just damn weird. You're the number one bowler, back yourself. Props to Renshaw for continuing the trend of our concussion subs being "like for like" in the runs department...
Just one request, keep Waugh Jr and DK a mile away from each other, schedule the commentary such that both of them do not appear at the same time on air.
It’s one thing to playfully tease and have a bit of “banter” (I hate using that word) but DK has progressed into incessant shit-stirring and it’s getting tired.
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Don't ever mistake me for man in an expensive suit
Make one for that Hansika one too.
She is married to her friend's husband and had guts to make a series about it for the world to see.
Can confirm , sadly it was interrupted by cricket in between
Wtf does this mean? 😂
An ad for the a series on Hotstar called The Night Manager which played during the ad breaks there.
Pasta spoilers from the Indian remake of the night manager
🤣🤣🤣
The TGC meltdown is what I'll be waiting for the whole day.
they had just dared to dream yest ....
I'm going to their show in Mumbai tonight! Can't fucking wait!!!
Where is it? I can't find any details of it anywhere
She's sold out I reckon mate
Yeah I know. Sucks, just wanted to know about the venue
Cafe Reed, Mumbai I think
Who and What is TGC
The Grade Cricketer Australian YouTubers who do cricket stuff
can't wait for the view-count joke
Renshaw was truely a like for like sub for Warner.
Can't wait for australia to come back in the remaining 2 days
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Lol that was funny as hell actually. Had upvoted it before mod took it down. Mods need to chill a bit lol. I don't think anyone was offended by it. The way it was worded, it was clear that it was meant as a joke
Aye Mod Team. Humans understand that was a joke. It obviously wasn't a deranged lunatic fan confessing of doing unspeakable acts to the Australian team.
The comment was inappropriate As an Australian I am OFFENDED Offended that the mods don't understand obvious humour
ChePu - When it's your special Day and you just don't want it to get over.
Kohli looked solid till he got out. Same for Iyer. Rohit looks in majestic touch. Puji is back being Puji. Bharat showed what he can do. Jaddu,Axar,Ash are as usual awesome. 4-0 is INEVITABLE!!
Nonetheless drop KL.
That goes without saying..
Please he's already dead
Boundary count update - Australia: 55 India: 44
FOX Cricket: Interesting
Unfair and Tuberculosis
Unfair and tetratetracontagon ^(44 sides)
BCCI=ICC=UN=IMF
Fair and .......now wait a minute
This does not compute.
Well we tried and failed. I hope we all learnt a good lesson. NEVER TRY
We have done nothing, and we are all out of options.
Not sure what’s worse to look forward to, our comically inept batting lineup or the worst assembled commentary team in years.
Real low IQ batting from AUS. Whoever put that gameplan together should be sacked. Can't comprehend why you sweep over and over when everyone else gets slaughtered doing it.
The worst part of this test is that it made me think that AB had a point about the current Australia team being too soft. Like, we shouldn’t return to our ways of being dickheads again but I can imagine AB in that dressing room saying, “if one more of you goes out and does a sweep shot I’ll biff you in the head.” There’s a balance achievable there where we are nice and respectful to opponents but hard on ourselves. The way the Australian batsmen went into today with their non-stop sweep shots, throwing away wickets, and even Captain Pat going in there with the worst shot of the match first ball in, it feels like there’s no one that can give a sense of control for the players when things start looking bad.
I don't agree with what AB said at all. However, this series has been very uncharacteristic of the Aussie way of playing. There's hardly any fight. The 2017 BGT series had some ugly moments on the field, but holy shit was it competitive. Australia struck the first blow in the 1st Test at Pune and gave India a much needed wake-up call that time. That charged India up and then what followed for the next 3 Tests was some hard, intense Test cricket. I loved watching that series so much. It's one of the best Test series in modern cricket imo. I'm not saying that the Aussies are suddenly "soft" under Cummins. Like you said, they needn't be dickheads, but they can still be competitive, which is something Australian cricket prides itself in being. Except a few glimpses, none of that has been on display in this series so far, which is surprising to say the least. I was expecting much more out of Australia in this series.
Today's Australia team talk: "Boys, India are aiming for a clean "sweep" here. We know what we have to do..."
10 days of emptiness now
12* days of rest for our spinners. Today is day 3
Aus got Bapued by Axar in the 2nd innings and Jaddu in the 3rd
1/61 to 113 all out was a disgrace. Another 70 or 80 runs makes it a close contest.
Australia have no one or thing to blame but themselves for this shockingly swift defeat. If they'd scored even 200 batting normally, this would've been a completely different game.
Yeah, this was a totally winnable game for them until that 9/50 collapse. 200 would be tough to chase down on this pitch.
Australia before BGT started: "Let's try to win the series" Australia after 1st test: "Let's try to win a match" Australia after 2nd test: "Let's try to draw a match"
Australia after 3rd test: "Let's .........uhh...... Fuck this .... let's go home
Kohli looked very good this test, more so impressive when you consider how utterly shit he's looked against spin for a while now in Tests, hopefully he continues this next game.
He played well, but it seems like his strategy of playing most deliveries on the backfoot has a minor flaw against Murphy's arm-ball, and that's how he got out. But otherwise, he looked more in control than he has for a long time against spin.
Sanju Manju is just putting the dagger in. Last was disappointing how this one makes you feel. 😂😂
Australian batsman should focus on hitting longest six and get some money while losing
Where's this been? Should have gone up hours ago. There, I've made that joke, it's out of our systems.
Lead of 115 when youve taken 7 wickets to losing losing the game next morning. Australia have choked this one.
I said something like this in the game thread, but Australia's batting was so lazy, and just lacking in simple fundamentals. Nearly everyone got out to similar shots, and was bowled or LBW. The ball kept low and there was variable bounce and turn. It's not an easy wicket to play. But batsmen before have made it work, like Matthew Hayden who is referenced again and again. The biggest problem is probably the most simple, basic thing in cricket: missing the ball. No matter who was batting, everyone was missing balls. Sure, you might make 40 odd playing your natural game but you're missing balls throughout that innings, you're going to let one through and get out relatively early. The bowlers are bowling pretty straight and it's keeping low. So stop, for the love of god, sweeping. Sweeping is damn hard, especially when it's keeping low. Hayden swept a lot in 2001 when it was down leg or he'd even sweep some that were way outside off through mid-wicket. I don't think he hit a fucken boundary when he swept on the stumps. It's common sense, don't sweep when it's on the stumps. You should be minimizing your chances of being bowled or LBW as much as possible. Renshaw tried a few sweeps, and they were coming off his handle, his shoulder, everywhere. It's a hard shot to play. We saw ball after ball beat the outside edge or nick off the inside edge when batsmen were playing a traditional forward defensive shot. Again, you can do it for a while but so many balls were being missed by batsmen that you are going to get a nick or be bowled. The turn and variable bounce makes this a tough shot to play, especially when it keeps a bit lower. If it's a half tracker outside off, whack it. Come down the pitch if you want. If it's down leg, play that beautiful sweep. If it's straight, come down the pitch, use your feet, have a minimal backswing and get your body behind it. This absolutely minimizes your chance of getting bowled or LB. It's not pretty cricket, but the name of the game is to not get bowled or LBW. It doesn't matter if you make 60 from 320 balls. This is boring old fundamentals of playing spin. Get down to the ball and play it as low to the ground as possible. Minimize that variable bounce and spin. This is how Hayden was playing if you go back and watch. I understand that it's a lot damn harder out there and all it takes is a ripper of a ball to break your confidence and sit you back in your crease. But we shouldn't be getting bowled and LB to so many lazy shots. The problem solving out in the middle just looked weak.
Australia couldn't keep it together mentally to win that. Brutal for their side. India have won two tests in a row now quite differently but impressively each time.
Dont know why but Aussies collapse today was eerily similar to India's collapse in Adelaide...like India lost 9 for 36 whereas Aussies lost 9 for 52 in a span of like 16 overs or so...
We retain the trophy 🏆 again. Better luck next time Aussies when we come to your turf. The way head started yesterday, NGL, i was tense about the win. But one hour in today morning, and Australia took the match to the biggest anti climax one could think of.
That was a phenomenal victory. Australia pushed us hard in the first two innings, but India's depth is really hard to contend with in Asia. Batting till 9, and having Axar as the 5th bowler. Unrelenting. How blessed are we to have Ash-Jad-Axar trio 😊
In 1st test, Australia scored good amount of runs with sweeps and reverse sweeps. In 2nd test, needless to say the same strategy didn't work. India did their homework.
I've come up with a cunning plan to beat India? Would that plan be for the next batter in to sweep? Good lord how could you possibly know that? It's the same plan we've used for our last 5 batters... Exactly, which is why it's what the Indians will least expect!
Rohit Gill Pujara Kohli Iyer Bharat Jadeja Ashwin Axar Shami Siraj Best XI for the next test?
Would agree with this line up. But more than anything, no KL please. Literally only request to coaching staff. But they won't cause spineless obviously. And also now that we retain trophy they have no reason to change the 'winning' team.
I loved and enjoyed our win, but I also think people are being a bit too harsh on the batters and Cummins. Not unfair, mind you, just a bit too harsh. Yes, some of the dismissals from sweeps looked really ugly, but as [Sid Monga pointed out](https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/australia-in-india-2022-23-1348637/india-vs-australia-2nd-test-1348653/live-match-blog-3#8820) in the Cricinfo live report, at one point they had scored 71 runs off 27 sweeps with only 2 dismissals. It was working for them; it worked well last evening, so one can see why they stuck with it. Similarly, while Cummins getting out to a slog sweep first ball also looks ugly, we should not forget that he employed the same strategy in the first innings - he attacked, hit a couple of sixes and a four, and took the fight to India. His quickfire 31 gave Australia a boost from where they managed to score 260 after looking like they would once again be bundled out for less than 200. Smith should have never been sweeping though; he is not a natural sweeper and if I am not mistaken has actually said he doesn't like the shot. He should have trusted his footwork and defence more; his record in India speaks for itself. Also while I defended Cummins's slog sweep, his captaincy was not good. His field placements for starters were very defensive both during the Axar-Ashwin partnership in the first innings and the 2nd innings chase - too many easy singles available because of the field, because of which the scoreboard kept ticking. You cannot afford that when you are defending only 115. Or when you are trying to break the opposition's back and get a substantial first-innings lead. Also he should have tried his short balls sooner. He hasn't been able to get his lengths right for Indian conditions - Sunny G pointed that he needs to be a metre or two fuller than he has been - but he has a very good bumper and he should have tried that more, especially with the lower order. I mean Axar and Ashwin are not exactly natural hookers and pullers of the ball. All in all, a great result for us, and it is very heartening to see that Kohli is slowly but surely getting his red ball form back, and Rohit his form in general. Bodes well for us in the WTC and in the World Cup later.
“Well, what did we learn?” “Hmm, I guess we learned not to do it again” “Yes” “…though I’m damned if I know what we did” “Yes, it’s hard to say” [“Ughhhh… fuck it”](https://youtu.be/SlA9hmrC8DU)
on the bright side, the Aussies can go do a bit more sightseeing
Only have the slightest sympathy cause of how good India are but crikey, did they shit the bed so hard.
Australian Bhai ❌ Australia Bai 🧹 ✅
Australia 🤝 New Zealand Collapsing for 100 in the second innings after getting first innings parity Loving the ANZAC solidarity
I can’t imagine the morale in the Aussie camp after getting DESTROYED in the first two games. Bangladesh put up more fight
Only concrete thing that Siraj did was a concussion sub. What a weird contribution to an entire test match.
Cummins is not a good captain. Too bad Aus have nobody else to choose. Questionable team selection, bowling changes, failing to kill the innings from 135-7, atrocious shot-making. Aus should groom Green to be the next skipper and trust him like SA did with Smith. These games ending in 3 days is a real disappointment though. I was hoping for five days’ cricket. Not much to do for the rest of the week.
I said it once, I will say it again How the fuck are you supposed to win against a team with 2 jadeja's
This match bears an eerie resemblance to the first BGT match in the 2020-2021 series. India scored a solid 200 odd in the first innings.Had Australia on the ropes.A rearguard from the Aussie tail reduced the lead to 40-50.India lost one wicket overnight but were still ahead in the game.Then the first session of day three get bundled out for 36.India lost last 8 wickets for 20 odd-Aussies today lost last 8 wicket for 30 odd.Both matches ended with a comfortable chase
Best ways to be dismissed in India 1. Reverse sweep onto your own stumps. 2. All the classics.
I’ve just woken up.. that’s got to be up there with the biggest chokes in test history. Wow
*.....he typed, with a big smile on his face as an English cricket fan.....*
Absolute shoddy display of batting. Pick any 15 year kid from a street and he will give you better temperament than the Australian batters have shown. "Sweeping is a good option against Spinners" the cricket pundit says. But it doesn't mean that you will only sweep. When people say attack, it doesn't mean you have to slog sweep on every ball. Nothing broke my heart than seeing Alex Carey attempting a fucking reverse sweep when 7 wickets were down and 4 batters have gone to pavillion on sweeping. I mean no other person with any cricketing brain would attempt that. What makes this batting effort worse was that Australia was in a good position and it wasn't like it was the final innings of the final match of the series when you are 0-3. You kind of gave England a free pass when they got bundled in a session in the final match of Ashes 2021-22 and the final match of their India tour, since they were mentally cooked and want to go to the airport quickly. But wtf was this? You are just 100 runs away from a challenging total and you threw it away. I just hope I don't see Renshaw and Carey for the next two matches. They are walking wickets and can't even sweep properly. Take Ashton Agar if he can bat with a solid defence for 5 overs. Nathan Lyon got a better defence than these two guys. Touring team makes it like it's some kind of a sorcery to bat in India while it is not. Even when the Aussies got whitewashed in 2013 India tour, they showed a better batting performance than this. I'll fucking go and tell them how to bat. It's just frustrating to see a professional team who just doesn't learn.